Raiders nail down McFadden

Posted By
Nick Groke
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June 6, 2008 @ 12:46 pm
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Darren McFadden took some shots from you all in these pages before the draft. Maybe deserved, maybe not.

But dude was AWESOME at Arkansas. He should’ve won the Heisman.

And the Raiders wasted no time in nailing McFadden down to a contract. Apparently they didn’t want to get embarrassed by another protracted contract discussion like they did last year with JaMarcus Russell. Ooops.

From the wires:

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The Oakland Raiders signed running back Darren McFadden to a $60 million, six-year contract, making sure their first-round draft pick will be in training camp after JaMarcus Russell’s protracted holdout last year.

“I’m very happy to have it out of the way,” McFadden said at a news conference. “Because like coach said, I want to be in training camp. I want to be out there practicing and learning plays. Missing a day of training camp is like missing a week of college practices. It would be a major setback for me.”

McFadden, who finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting in each of the last two seasons, will be guaranteed $26 million as the fourth pick in the draft, said his agent, Ian Greengross.

McFadden ran for 4,590 yards and 41 touchdowns in three seasons with the Razorbacks, averaging 5.8 yards per carry. Though the Raiders were loaded with running backs, they decided McFadden had too much talent to pass up with the fourth overall pick.